How do you pronounce 로?

로 is romanized ro and read exactly as written.

로

로 — ro

로 is ㄹ plus ㅗ, romanized ro and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.

Frequency: common — it appears at or above the median frequency in the teaching material behind this site. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.

How this block is put together

ㄹ + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㄹ (rieul)

/ɾ/ before a vowel, [l] in final position

the tapped r of Spanish pero when a vowel follows; an l at the end of a syllable

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 로

도로
road
로마
Rome

포로prisoner
오로라aurora

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄹ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 로?: 로 is romanized ro and read exactly as written.